Nuts About Muts - Helpful Hints

How to have a happy dog!

What can you do to help change the behaviour?

Exercise & Mental Stimulation plays an important part in helping prevent bad behaviours. A well exercised and stimulted dog is a happy dog, more likely to settle down and relax.

Fear vs Fun. Teaching by fear is outdated and does not work. Use rewards more to help the dog build trust in you and to make yourself worth listening to.
Dominant? It is very rare for a dog to be dominant over a human being and is more usually a case of being allowed to "get away" with things or no boundaries being set.
Good Diet? Diet can have a huge effect on your dogs behaviour, discuss this with your vet or with me when I visit.
Patience & Tolerance. Its what you need to change your dogs behaviour. You cant teach an old dog new tricks - oh yes you can! They may have certain genetic traits depending on the breed but they all like rewards and will actively work to obtain them.
Its never the dogs fault, always the owners - True or false?
Even the most caring owners can inadvertently reinforce a dog's anti-social behaviour. However, you must not blame yourself for your dog's problem and feel it is all your fault. It pays to remember you are only human.

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